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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1092825" data-attributes="member: 5868">In descednding order or preference:Temple of Elemental Evil should be out in September or October, and looks like it may improve on some of the best features of the BG series.  It has the closest execution of D&D Rules to date, and is 3.5 to boot -- this would be my recommendation if you only get one game.BG1 & BG2 are great, of course, and available cheap now (2E rules-based)If you want a less involved story, IWD and IWD2 are fun hack 'n slash games with the same engine as BG.  IWD2 did a fair approximation of 3E rules.  The roleplaying is less involved than the BG series, and the plots are essentially linear.If you're into multiplayer games, then NWN is nice with user-created modules.  The single player game is pretty poor IMO, with some poorly chosen modifications to the 3E rules to make a real-time game.  It's not party-based except in multiplayer, which is another feature I find annoying.  Since I prefer single-player CRPGs, I rapidly got bored with it.Avoid Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor unless you're absolutely desperate.</blockquote>